What Wulan meant by saying this was to tell the girl in front of him to be prepared, as the price of their golden cherries must not be lower than this.
However, Guo Dong was stunned for a moment, then laughed:
"Auntie, 30 yuan a pound is probably just a gimmick, you can't get it easily."
She was telling the truth: "We followed the herbal medicine dealers to the Chinese medicine production areas, and the price of processed golden cherry fruit was only 30 to 80 yuan per kilogram, depending on the quality. 70 yuan is the price of high-quality late-season dried fruit."
"Kilograms? Late fruit?"
Wu Lan's dream was shattered in an instant.
"Yes." Guo Dong explained seriously: "The harvest of golden cherry is divided into early fruit, medium fruit and late fruit. Early fruit is the small fruit that has not yet matured, and the quality is the lowest. Late fruit is the large golden red fruit that matures naturally, and it is sold like this after it is processed."
“And now many are cultivated as thornless varieties, so the cost of picking is even lower.”
But the price gap is too big.
It’s not enough to go from fresh fruits to dried fruits, we even have to jump from catties to kilograms - what’s the point of earning all this hard work
Wulan, who has become accustomed to the high prices of things at home, finds it difficult to accept this gap.
Her frustration was also visible.
"no way."
Guo Dong smiled particularly considerately: "Nowadays, people pay attention to large-scale planting, which can not only ensure balanced quality, but also make harvesting easier. The price of things will come down."
Large-scale planting is all about mass production. The crops are harvested in batches and then sorted by quality. Although the prices vary, you can still make a lot of money overall.
"However, your family also has advantages. I think the golden cherry in the video is much better than the others. If it is really of that quality, I can give you 50 yuan per pound."
"If you don't believe me, let's not talk about it today. Later, you can ask those medicinal herb dealers you know and see what prices they quote."
"I dare say my price is definitely the most fair."
After all, most of the people who buy the properties are reselling them, so it is impossible for them to offer the highest price.
The reason why Guo Dong was able to save a lot of money was because she had a good prescription that could use this golden cherry.
They buy it at a high price, go back to mix and process it, and sell the finished pills... This is the way to increase the price the most.
She is very confident about this.
After all, 50 yuan per catty is a really high price compared to the previous highest price of 80 yuan per kilogram.
For ordinary farmers, they can harvest 100 to 180 kilograms of golden cherries a day. Even if the weight drops after processing, it is still a lot of extra income.
According to Guo Dong's past experience, everyone must be extremely happy.
But now…
She looked around and always felt that things were not as she thought.
Not only Wu Lan, but also the people following behind him were not interested, and they murmured: "50 yuan a pound, and it needs to be processed well - that is, remove the thorns and dry it, right? It's very troublesome, it's better for us to keep it and make wine."
Guo Dong: …
Although everyone's reaction was not right, she still tried to explain: "Drying is also possible."
"The sugar content of golden cherry is high, so it can't be dried completely when it's sun-dried. It can only be dried to 90%, which makes it inconvenient to store."
"It's better to dry it. Drying it can dry it thoroughly, and the sugar content will be very good, and it will not affect the efficacy of the medicine."
"The effects of golden cherry are also very good. It can stop bleeding and leukorrhea, treat long-term cold diarrhea, and also strengthen semen—"
Qiao Qiao also nodded and said loudly: "Aphrodisiac!"
Guo Dong: …
She burst out laughing.
"Don't listen to this folk remedy. Golden Rosa can't be used like this. It can solidify semen and reduce urine, but it can't be used as a yang-enhancing drug. It must be combined with other drugs... And it can only treat deficiency symptoms, not excess symptoms."
What
What is deficiency syndrome or excess syndrome? And it can't improve sexual performance
Everyone was stunned.
…
After a while, everyone finally arrived at the mountain.
When he went around the hillside, a huge wall of flowers appeared in front of Guo Dong.
The flower wall was emerald green, winding along the high fence to both sides, with branches spreading and climbing more than two meters high! The emerald green leaves, golden red fruits, and white flowers with yellow cores trembled in the wind like butterfly wings...
Bees buzzed among the lush flowers, and beautiful black butterflies landed on the branches. When the wind blew, the entire flower wall looked like a dream.
Even though Guo Dong had seen the dream scene with music in the video, she still couldn't help but stand there speechless, shocked when she saw it with her own eyes.
But the shock didn't last long.
Because Wulan had to take a look every day when she went up the mountain to pick tea, she had long been accustomed to it. Now she could not wait to walk to the densely packed golden cherry with thorns and asked expectantly:
"Look at this, how much can you give?"
If there is less, I might as well not sell it, she thought.
After all, if the dried fruit costs 50 yuan per pound, the fresh fruit should be at least three pounds, right? With so many thorns, that money is not enough to cover the labor cost.
Before Guo Dong could say anything, he heard wheezing sounds coming from behind the flower wall.
Song Tan opened the iron gate, and Dabao and Erbao had already gathered around happily, sniffing one by one and wagging their tails with particular enthusiasm.
"Big Treasure, Second Treasure!" Qiao Qiao happily squatted down and began to rub the two dogs' heads:
"You must have heard my footsteps, right? You're so smart! What do you want to eat tonight? Do you have any water left? There are lots of melon rinds to eat today..."
He talked incessantly and asked questions continuously. Dabao and Erbao were unable to answer and had already started to lick them like crazy.
It was not until then that Guo Dong realized that the big boy who had been following him with clear eyes seemed to be...
However, she quickly retracted her gaze and then looked at the golden cherry carefully:
"You look so good..."
She murmured.
"It would be impossible to grow to this size without seven or eight years of careful pruning."
“That’s it!”
Wulan was proud: "These are the big seedlings that our family specially found, they are all three to five years old, and there is also a mother plant - look, this is the tallest and largest one."
"What?"
Guo Dong was stunned.
Her eyes moved around the overly lush golden roses and asked, "How many years have you been planting these?"
The branches are thick, the flowers are numerous, the leaves are shiny, and there are many dense thorns... It is obviously not the peak fruit-bearing season, but there are already so many fruits ripe...
The standardized management in the base is not even as good as the thornless golden cherry!
“This year.”
Ulan is open and honest.
In her impression, this thing can grow very long in the wild, so isn't it natural for it to grow to a certain size if she adds some fertilizer to her own field
But in fact, the scale is already particularly shocking.
At the very least, Guo Dong had never seen such quality in those famous planting bases suitable for growing medicinal herbs.